Google doesn't like spam, irrelevant content, spam, and dubious backlinks. The conversation should focus on spam and dodgy backlinks, irrelevant content marketing, and spam networks. The dark side of SEO began to cast a wider shadow over the...
There are also many reports that, despite Penguin, Google is still ranking spam sites. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts tweeted about the new Penguin Spam Report today. When you go to the form, Google asks you for information about the...
You know, like spam comment in your forums or blogs? Why Content Marketing is the New SEO". Is Google's love affair with content marketing usurping SEO? Content Marketing is the New SEO " These are actual titles from article in the top search...
Last week Google announced the removal of thousands of link selling websites and we are hearing of a manual spam penalty against Sprint this week. Google has just rolled out Penguin 2.0, a large algorithmic update promising to go “deeper” than the...
He detailed that the new Penguin was specifically going to target blackhat spam, but would be a significantly larger impact on spam than the original Penguin and subsequent Penguin updates have had. Twitter is full of people commenting on the new...
Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results. You must now consider a number of new factors when designing your website. These factors include modern design and content...
We can't rely on spam and automation to boost traffic and search rankings anymore. Link farms and spam blogs aren't going to help you, regardless of their PageRank or domain authority. It doesn't help anyone, and it's really just a slightly more...
One of the common misconceptions of marketing automation is that it’s strictly for B2B, and is essentially an email system pre-loaded with time-released messages (or even spam). From search marketing to social media, these are business game...
The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about what webmasters can expect to see in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google, particularly changes combating black hat web spam from many different...
The Good Ol' Way #5: Ad Spam You know, the "Good Ol' Days" when you could manipulate Google's algorithm (and others) like a ball of clay and out came whatever you made of it. Wanted to rank of Viagra?
Suppose I have a site that covers fishing overall (A) – Search Engine RoundtableOnly one page penalized due to 12 megabytes of spam from 21,169 comments. Enhanced campaigns get Google+ annotations and an upgrade center.
I have often said that until social figures out "spam" (fake profiles/automation, etc.the way that search engines have figured out link spam, social signals can’t be as relevant as we might like. As they get bigger, they must deal with a tsunami of...
Google: Disavow Links Even If Removed As A Best Practice – Search Engine RoundtableSays Google's John Mueller: "While it's really important for the web-spam team when processing the reconsideration request to see significant effort put into...
If no manual action was taken, then you'll receive an automated message that tells you that there was no spam action found on your site. Once that work is done, you'll then have to file a reconsideration request to get your penalty removed and...
Users of BOTW can be assured that the sites they find are great resources, with no spam or irrelevant sites. Best of the Web, a directory of all the content on the web, turns 19 on April 20. SEW spoke with BOTW president and founder Greg Harnett...
How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam? The legacy of spam didn't build itself. Spam was the unfortunate byproduct of these strategies, but we weren't yet aware of the implications.
Google's Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam, rankings, and SEO tips. Ask the Ex-Googlers Anything at BrightonSEO – Linkdex BlogEx-Googlers Fili Wiese, Alfredo Pulvirenti and Jonas Weber talk spam, bad links, link building, content, social...
Competitor backlink profiles are often filled with spam, so it's important to evaluate each link before performing outreach. Dear site owner or webmaster of http://www.example.com/, We received a request from a site owner to reconsider http://www...
Otherwise, you run the risk of becoming a one-trick pony and looking like spam. What do Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn all have in common? The social networks all use metadata to pull in a preview of your content.
For example, exact match anchor text links in blogrolls, comment spam, directory links, etc. I thought to myself, was he using comment spam to gain exact match anchor text links? Upon digging into the ratings, I noticed a review that said, "profile...
